Are We Sure it is Spring?

For Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy I will finish the binding on the Critters quilt – almost done and it is for Sarah’s Hands2Help – one side of the binding is left to do and then wash and dry it and send it off soon to the Little Lambs Foundation for foster children – and when I get done with that I will work on the bird quilt.

I washed sheets yesterday and redid the bed with a different quilt – I change them  every month or so.  This Traditional Red and Green Applique Quilt is a favorite of mine – from start to finish it took about 3 years to needle turn applique and hand quilt – I finished it in 2014.   I used patterns from 2 books that had this kind of applique and mixing the blocks really worked out well.  I am also linking to Quilting is More Fun than Housework today.

Working on the big center block was a joy – all those little circles I think there was around 70 of them or so.

Baby it is cold out there – what the heck is going on with April – yes we have had nice days but we are having some very chilly days too – Saturday was a high of a very windy cold 53 degrees – the sun was beautiful after the stormy Friday we had but the wind chill made it feel like 40 degrees – down in the low 30’s last night and the ferns were covered up again and Sunday night/Monday morning we might get down to 31 again.  I know I am lucky to only have the weather to complain about – but give me spring already!

Mike and I took a drive yesterday and stopped at an old campground to take some photos of the Illinois Bayou – it is rushing fast water with all the rain we have had recently – look at this water.  This is about 15 miles north of us by the bluffs.  In the summer and low water time you can walk across this easily.  People wade in it in the summer.  It has been years since we stopped here and such a short drive really.

That is our truck up there this was an easy walk

Each campsite (not many) have a stone house with a fireplace inside of it (we do get a bit of rain so this is a nice feature for sure) there is also a fire pit outside to use as well so it is just up to you.   This is black bear country so you always have to make sure to leave no food outside.  We have never spotted a bear on our land but they do live in Arkansas and have actually been spotted in near by towns at times.

Here is the inside – probably built back in the 1930’s when a lot of the old CCC campgrounds were built to help give jobs to men in the depression era.

A little quilting of course was done on Tumalo Trails as well – this is from Friday night

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